James D. Hart with Berkeley's copy of the Shakespeare First
Folio. Photograph, 3 May 1973.

Hart had been a supporter of the university library's Rare
Books and Special Collections Department before he became
involved with Bancroft. He was instrumental in acquiring a copy
of the 1623 first folio edition of Shakespeare's works as the
Library's 2,000,000th book in 1955. Later, he would oversee the
incorporation of the department into Bancroft.

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